The game "Monopoly"

has been popular all over the world, but there is a very similar game in old Beijing called "Official Promotion", which has survived for a thousand years, but unfortunately was once banned as feudal dross and few people know about it today. It is said to have started in the Tang Dynasty with Li He.

In recent years, archaeological discoveries have shown that the Han dynasty portrait bricks already contained scenes of the game, and it is likely that the Han scrolls unearthed at Kongjiapo were the earliest chessboard for the promotion of officials.

The game was played by spinning a gyroscope, which had writing on it. The four words 'virtue, talent, work and spoils', and when the writing was stopped, the spinning side could be converted into a chessboard with a few squares, each with a different official position. The first player to reach the position of 'Tai Shi', 'Tai Bao' or 'Tai Fu' in the centre

of the board is the winner. If the gyro stops with the word "stolen", points are deducted and the pieces are moved back accordingly.

This game helped children to quickly understand the structure of the court at the time,，and it was also a way to teach and entertain them, as they were promoted through "virtue, talent and merit", while corruption was a step backwards.

After the Republic, there were also games to promote officials from schoolboy to president. Although the various games took different forms, the basic rules and gameplay were exactly the same.

大富翁 游戏已经风靡全球，

但在老北京有一种非常类似的游戏，叫做"升官发财"，它已经存活了一千年，可惜曾经被当作封建糟粕而被禁止，如今很少有人知道它。据说它起源于唐朝的李贺。

近年来，考古发现，汉代画像砖中已经有了这种游戏的场景，孔家坡出土的汉代画卷很可能是最早的升官棋盘。

该游戏是通过旋转一个陀螺仪来进行的，陀螺仪上有文字。四个字'德、才、功、脏'，当文字停止时，旋转的一面可以变成一个有几个格子的棋盘，每个格子都有不同的官位。第一个到达棋盘中心的"太师，"太保 "或 "太傅 "位置的人就是赢家。如果陀螺停在 "偷"字上，就会被扣分，棋子也会相应地移回。

这种游戏帮助孩子们迅速了解当时的朝廷结构，也是一种寓教于乐的方式，因为他们通过

"德、才、艺 "得到了提升，而腐败则是一种倒退。

共和国成立后，还出现了将官员从小学生提升到总统的游戏。虽然各种游戏的形式不同，但基本规则和玩法是完全相同的.

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